Tipping the balance, in your favor

[kane1]

Your welcome, thanks for the interest. I just found out about this game a little while ago. I really like it's realism. I started a "how-to" post and it kept getting bigger. For someone like you who's got experience with changing stuff, your looking for the "Mission" file here is the path on my computer;
F:\game install here\Theatre.of.War.2.Africa.1943\Theatre of War 2\Missions\USA\Faid
This example is for the first mission for the USA. Yea that's right it's copy and paste. It's a little different than MoW but I'm sure you can figure it out, and your right it's not a saved game file so if you haven't backed it up and you make a mistake your sc@#wed.
What I think I'll do is show how to change 2 or 3 of the more important things and zip it, so keep checking back. Once again thanks for the interest and I hope my tips have given you a few more hours of fun with MoW.

[Nokturnal]

Yes i saw the post when you had first found the game and i knew it wouldn't be long before you edited something.
I've actually stopped playing MoW because i don't get enough computing time these days and ToW 2 requires so much time just to play one mission. But it's always worth it.

I'll be sure to back up the mission files before trying, thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
Still got a couple of German missions left so i might tackle those first, or just edit completed missions instead.

Still waiting on Red Tide and the other expansion for some more MoW fun. But by then the new ToW games will be out and i'll have to flip a coin.

[kane1]

Ok, this is how to add points and deployment spots. Before you use this tip first make sure you backup your files, also any time you mess around with game files sometimes you get unwanted effects. So far giving myself a lot of points has had no bad effects, on the other hand giving myself more deployment spots has crashed the game(I can still play till the end of the mission but I can't continue.) and some of my tanks and stuff end up outside the set-up grid. I've figured out how to enlarge the set-up grid but that's another post.

This example is for the USA's first mission. Using this path(it might look a little different on your computer) locate the "Faid" folder and open in

F:\game install here\Theatre.of.War.2.Africa.1943\Theatre of War 2\Missions\USA\Faid

Your looking for the "Mission" file (make sure you back it up!) Open with a text editor like notepad. Scoll down until you see this

	<ArmyComposition>
		<Cost>2650</Cost>  These are your points just change it to whatever you want.
		<Outdated />
		<Permission>
			<CompoundFilter>
				<Places>6</Places>   These are the deployment spots, just change it to what you need.
				<filter>
					<Classification>TANKS</Classification>
				</filter>
			</CompoundFilter>
			<CompoundFilter>
				<Places>5</Places>
				<filter>
					<Classification>DETACHMENT</Classification>
				</filter>
			</CompoundFilter>
			<CompoundFilter>
				<Places>3</Places>
				<filter>
					<Classification>ARMOREDCAR</Classification>
				</filter>
			</CompoundFilter>
			<CompoundFilter>
				<Places>2</Places>
				<filter>
					<Classification>FLAK</Classification>
				</filter>
			</CompoundFilter>
			<CompoundFilter>
				<Places>2</Places>
				<filter>
					<Classification>ARTILLERY</Classification>
				</filter>
			</CompoundFilter>
			<CompoundFilter>
				<Places>2</Places>
				<filter>
					<Classification>CAR</Classification>
				</filter>
			</CompoundFilter>

Yours will look different cause this has already been changed. When your done just close it and save. If something went wrong just replace it with your backup file. That's it.

[gunho]

hello kane im not sure if something is missing i remember seeing that you had also how to change tanks procedure is it still here can you give a quick rundown on how to change tanks like you had american to german plz let me know thanks